Last I heard they were still in the process. Has it been finalized yet?
Edit- Awaiting the OK from Texas judges.
It would cost the Onion $81k a month for the domain. The best part is that Jones is going through bankruptcy, having to sell off almost all of his belongings to compensate the families he harassed and slandered (libelled?)
Slandered.
Wouldn't it be both if he says it on a podcast and then writes an article?
Did he write an article? I thought he always did spoken.
I was under the assumption infowars was also a website with blogs or dumb articles on it. I have no idea, though because I had no reason to visit his website.
So, can we get ahold of the cue cards?
Still doesn't count unless the cue cards were shown to the public.
Apparently finalized a few days ago. But the news was published in The Onion, so you can be forgiven for thinking it might be satire.
Yeah, they're posting it all over the place. I've seen other platforms also posting it everywhere.
the fact that onion is posting something all over the place does not mean anything, they seem to be taking it as seriously as all their other news
this is the freshest info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
they are waiting for a judge, they have a wish, but they own/rent/control anything at this time.
"other platforms" reposting that does not mean anything. same as it did not mean anything when they posted the same false information 18 months ago:
if anything, it is nice example of why we need professional media collecting and verifying news before releasing them and why random people shouting on social networks are not news
This is the best article I've found, and it's more recent than the NYT article you've posted:
I still find dedicated legal reporting to be better than general reporting. And this is a complicated history touching on a lot of different areas of the law.
But the key fact here is that Alex Jones was allowed to keep control over the business assets while his appeals are pending, but has run out of money and cannot continue running his own business. At that point, the receiver overseeing things (where Alex Jones can run the business but can't transfer assets out or pay anything not directly related to running the business) saw that things had changed enough that he needed to keep the business assets valuable, and that Alex Jones himself couldn't.
So this licensing deal is a way to keep the assets valuable: keep paying rent on the studio itself, keep all the broadcasting and recording equipment under one roof, keep all the unexpired contracts.
If Alex Jones can't come up with a plan to actually pay the rent and keep all the stuff, the court is basically going to have no choice but to agree that there's no way to keep things as they are while the appeals wind through the system, and a temporary licensing agreement is the best option until the appeals go through.
Most of the reporting doesn't seem to appreciate that Jones' prospects of blocking this in the courts is dependent on a practical hurdle, not just a legal one: he can't afford to keep it. That's what's changed since December 2024 when The Onion's first attempt to buy this stuff was blocked (by another federal bankruptcy court, with a different judge than this state court judge overseeing the receiver).
It would cost the Onion $81k a month for the domain
all things considered, that could be renegotiated with the registrar now that Jones is no longer the owner. It's no longer worth that as it's not raking in Jones-level revenue. Sure, it's still worth a lot, especially with The Onion owning it, but, still, not $81k/mo.
That $81K/mo isn't going to the registrar. Its going to the manager of Jone's debt to be distributed to his creditors, including the families of Sandy Hook.
oh, my mistake
The deal calls for The Onion to pay $81,000 a month to license the Infowars.com domain and brand name, which the receiver says will "cover carrying costs to preserve and protect the assets of the receivership estate" until an appeal filed by Jones is decided and the path is cleared for a sale.
I see, so it's temporary, although that appeal could take years
81k per month, that's wild
It’s weird that my two most trusted institutions are a satirical newspaper and a rude card game, right?
Didn't the rude card game have an employee institutionalised for not laughing at their n-word jokes?
Lost a bit of respect in my book there.
Feel like elaborating?
One of my most trustworthy news sources is an imitation from cartoon which presents as a talking fish on Instagram
Infowars is making the tshirts gay.
Onion really needs rainbow frog shirts with the Infowars logo.
It's going to be hard to satirize Infowars. This is a real shirt Alex Jones is selling now:
So they're wearing shirts with which they self identify as low iq now? Are they getting self aware? Before ai? That's a surprise..
Or is it a black shirt with low iq, basically fully bringing out in the open the thinly veiled dog whistle of trump using the term whenever he's talking about women of color?
Yeah more that, i think
It's a reference to trump calling Alex jones, Candace owens and some others "low IQ" in a recent social media rant. Thing is, no one is gonna know this and they're just gonna wear a shirt that accidentally admits a harsh truth lol
Literally anything to "trigger the libs!" That's the entire Republican party now. Oh, sure. There are a bunch of people at the top scamming and raking in piles of cash while believing none of it... But the rest are idiots and trolls. And they currently control our country...
It's just because Trump called Jones "Low IQ"
On paper, I feel like onion acquiring infowars could have been kind of uninteresting, but the way it’s unfolding has me dying laughing. Tim Heidecker being involved, Alex still having access to the studio, shirtless, ranting and raving about how the left are body snatchers (as if he didn’t completely bring this on himself).
It’s borderline adult swim absurdity. I love it
It is funny, but I'm going to wait on buying any InfoWars merch until the change in ownership has really sunk into the collective consciousness. InfoWars is just too culturally toxic atm, and I don't want to carry anything around remotely related to Alex Jones.
Pride colors with an onion in the middle.
I'd say you're safe, but... I had a woman yell at me for "pushing my agenda in her face in front of her child" while quietly reading on my phone eating at Panda Express with one of these color run t-shirts on.
Oh yeah? Well, that woman hasn't gone running since 1977! And she uses [Brand] so her wash colors don't run! How dare you put those sick ideas in her child's mind! And in a Panda Express, no less. Pandas don't run either! Is nowhere safe??
I would never disrespect the panda. I was there to worship at the altar of orange chicken. It is a holy place for me.
Yeah but limited edition... If they do succeed, and it does sink into the collective consciousness, then these items might end up being desirable. Could be cool to sport the og Onion Wars shirt years from now
I dunno, Alex Jones sharing old Adult Swim Tim Heidecker content like it’s real information is pretty damn funny.
🎉 👉🐸👉 🏳️🌈 👈🐸👈 🎉
Shirt needs a rainbow frog on it
They really are turning the frogs gay
onion may be making a merchandise, but they did not take over anything, so far… they have a plan to rent the domain for 6 months, it now depends on a texas judge… so far the infowars is still full of alex jones’ shit, as everyone can verify by typing that address into browser.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
it is fascinating how people are willing to shout nonsense that is not true, as long as they like the nonsense… cool (mis)info war 😂
I audibly said "yayyyy" at my screen when I saw the shirt lol
i really want the tote but at the same time i'm pretty sure most people won't get it. they'd just see the logo, google it, and think i'm an idiot. if they'd made a pride-patterned bag with the plain logo on it i'd be more interested.
Can they make a frog sized version so we can gay the frogs?
A big cut off the proceeds goes directly to the Sandy Hook families, too
I really don't like wearing brands, but this one is testing my resolve
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